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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edscharp who wrote (566)	4/29/2003 12:38:21 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Are you saying the the virus is real enough, but the US has induced hysteria in the hearts and minds of it's opponents who are currently dealing with SARS? Are you saying that their really isn't a virus problem, but only a panic problem? That's right... and below is an article that pointedly corroborates my opinion. Actually, I predicted all that scaremongering mess several years ago --in the wake of 911. Remember, I was talking of a new geopolitical paradigm, namely, Terror Diplomacy. Well, if anything, the US was badly "freaked out" recently, huh? I mean, 911, the anthrax scare, the DC-sniper blackmail, etc. All that high-octane terror aimed at the US alone! Somehow, the US is fighting back --"we can terrorize you too!!" goes the message... However, I'm afraid you're targeting the wrong countries. Beside malaria, SARS pales as killer Barry James International Herald Tribune Saturday, April 26, 2003 UN report says a million Africans will die of disease in 2003 While SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, grabs the headlines, about 3,000 people, mostly children in Africa, are dying every day from an older and more deadly scourge - malaria - according to a United Nations report issued Friday. By any measure, malaria eclipses SARS but has become such a part of life in much of sub-Saharan Africa and other poor countries that it gets relatively little attention. SARS has so far infected an estimated 4,510 people and killed about 276. This year, between 300 million and 500 million will contract malaria and at least a million of them will die, according to the report by the World Health Organization and the UN Children's Fund, the first assessing malaria across Africa. Children under 5 and pregnant women are hardest hit by the disease, which is caused by a mosquito-borne parasite and costs Africa of billions of dollars a year in direct expenses and lost growth. Many of those who survive a malaria attack are left handicapped. [...] iht.com